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Crypto-currency enabled future crime
Blogs, Cybercrime, Digital technology, Organised crime
Ever since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009 and the massive growth of distributed ledger technologie...
Radical reform is required if the police service is to look like the society it serves
Blogs, Police legitimacy
The Mayor of London has recently published an Action Plan to improve black Londoners’ trust an...
The value of digital forensics
Blogs, Crime investigation, Digital technology
It is hard to imagine a crime where digital evidence does not play a role in its investigation. This...
LONG READ: Policing the long crisis: an appraisal of the police response to Covid-19
Blogs, Police legitimacy
Jon Clements, Director, Development – Crest Advisory and Elisabeth Aitkenhead, Research Offic...
Fear of crime in the gig economy
Blogs, Robbery, Violent crime
Takieddine Boudhane was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park after a driving altercation. Jabed Hussain...
LONG READ: Policing the pandemic: public attitudes to police visibility, enforcement and fairness
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Policing and Covid-19
Jon Clements, Director, Development – Crest Advisory; Michael Skidmore, Senior Researcher R...
Greater transparency is required around the use of police data to inform decisions in prison
Blogs, Digital technology, Justice
In July 2018 the then Justice Secretary David Gauke MP announced that new technology would be introd...
AI enabled future crime
Blogs, Cybercrime, Digital technology
Experts from academia, the private sector, the police, the government and state security agencies id...
Lack of awareness of evidence retention protocols risks miscarriages of justice
Blogs, Crime investigation, Justice
In this guest blog Damian Allain, Head of Casework at the charity Inside Justice, explores the issue...
Out of the darkness: policing and the death of George Floyd
Blogs, Police legitimacy
These are dark times. We stagger bewildered out of the greatest public health crisis in a cent...
Putting the public at the heart of policing strategy
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Police resources
In this blog Andy Higgins explores how we can achieve a more sophisticated dialogue around the publi...
A question of fairness? Examining the force-level relationship between police officer numbers and the 20,000 uplift
Blogs, Police funding, Police resources
When the policy to increase (‘uplift’) police officer numbers in England and Wales by 20,000 was...
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